Thread: 2 000 000 signatures or dollars. What will make you a president?

The forthcoming election of president in Russia scheduled for March 4, 2012 is already illegitimate. Why? Candidates from parliamentary parties and self-nominee candidates are set in unequal conditions in violation of Constitution. If you are a self-nominee you are to collect 2 million signatures of votes in you support, in......20 days! That is the price of registration you as a candidate. Sounds unrealistic, and it is actually so! That is how unwanted candidates are being sorted out from the election. Or maybe not all of them, if you are an oligarch, like Michael Prokhorov, and have enough money to fabricate those signatures, you are welcome to continue in the election race.

On January 30, 2012 Russian fate will be at stake: http://volya-naroda....x/?axf_lang=eng

As example their candidat Svetlana Peunova was excluded from the list of candidates for submitting not-enough amount of signatures in her support. Interestingly enough, political scientists consider the amount of signatures stated by acting elective legislation impossible for collection in allocated time period, which means, that candidates who met the requested amount (including oligarch Prokhorov) are likely to have committed fraud.
She requested the Supreme Court of the RF to prove consistency of acting Russian elective legislation with Russian constitution, the direct-acting law of the country. The hearing rejected the request: The power did not invent insuperable obstacles for not-approved candidates to have second thoughts.

Petition to the Supreme Court of the RF from Svetlana Peunova - YouTube

Originally Posted by zutou

thanks !@ agree ! it is the fact !

I'm in Russia now on exchange programm. and i look after their illegal elections with my own eyes..
money is a real quarantee of a power here...as in UK to regret

Russia has no extensive experience of democracy and the street protests are signs that a tradition is slowly developing. A flawed election is better than none, and is being held on the correct time-period. Next election may be an improvement, with parties becoming more organised.

Hi guys!
I want to continue this topic about unconstitutional elections in Russia. Many citizens as i can see do not allow bloody plans to happen... They think oligarchs and corrupted officials must resign because there is no more space for them in bright future.

At the same time many people support their national leader Svetlana Peunova and believe she will lead the country to the prosperity. What goes around comes around.

Originally Posted by chimera

Russia has no extensive experience of democracy and the street protests are signs that a tradition is slowly developing. A flawed election is better than none, and is being held on the correct time-period. Next election may be an improvement, with parties becoming more organised.

Democracy is a beautiful word, nothing more. It does not exist in its pure state nowhere. Yes, may be people do have some rights and freedoms to choose their sexual orientation, or occupation, but when it concerns any political stuff bright individuals, who really know how to built a better life for country are UNWANTED! It is like this everywhere, so why does democracy not apply to politics? That what happens with election in Russia. People did united in national people's political party "THE VOLYA" , did it compliance will all laws, but Russian government does not register this party, because it contradicts their selfish interest only to use people to get rich. So only 3% of Russia population are members of polit. parties (it is only 7 of them! they do not register no one else), 97% have no rights to nominate their candidates!